I missed this yesterday, but the Minnesota Golden Gophers fired coach Tim Brewster. The Gophers are 1-6 so far this season.
(Hattip: FARK.)
Archive for October 18th, 2010
Go, go, Gophers!
Monday, October 18th, 2010Obit watch: October 18, 2010.
Monday, October 18th, 2010Benoit Mandelbrot. I vividly remember reading about the Mandelbrot set in Martin Gardner’s “Mathematical Games” column in Scientific American back in the day, and then having hours of fun generating Mandelbrot sets on my computer.
When I say “hours of fun”, I mean “hours of fun” as I was using a Radio Shack Color Computer with a blazing fast 6809E processor running at 0.89 MHz (or 1.78 MHz: does POKE 65495,0 mean anything to anyone?) It pretty much took an entire day of processing to generate sets.
Also among the dead: Simon “Manimal” MacCorkindale. When A.T. mentioned this on Saturday, it occurred to me that, with current CGI technology, the time is ripe for a “Manimal” revival on NBC. Lord knows, it couldn’t be any worse than their current programming.
Here’s your Barbara Billingsley obit.
Your loser update: week 6.
Monday, October 18th, 2010Jerry Jones says “I would never consider (firing a coach) during the season.” Never?
NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Buffalo (bye week)
Carolina (bye week)